Ray considers that small hand, the natural fineness of a woman's frame compared to a man's. He considers torque, load, what's in the brain pan, how fragile even a big man's knees are, that a girl at ease with a baseball bat might make use of a length of old pipe in an alley, or a sharpened pencil, or a screwdriver. He thinks about how smart his girls are, how they're already learning to think on their feet, to perform with grace under pressure.
I love how instinctively smart Ray is. He doesn't have to think, he just knows. And feels. Too much, sometimes. This was very real and immediate and isn't a happy-ever-after -- it's going to take a while for Ray to heal.
This was so beautiful, brig. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Ray considers that small hand, the natural fineness of a woman's frame compared to a man's. He considers torque, load, what's in the brain pan, how fragile even a big man's knees are, that a girl at ease with a baseball bat might make use of a length of old pipe in an alley, or a sharpened pencil, or a screwdriver. He thinks about how smart his girls are, how they're already learning to think on their feet, to perform with grace under pressure.
I love how instinctively smart Ray is. He doesn't have to think, he just knows. And feels. Too much, sometimes. This was very real and immediate and isn't a happy-ever-after -- it's going to take a while for Ray to heal.
This was so beautiful, brig. Thank you so much for sharing!